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J. W. OLSON.

WAGON END GATE. No. 366,734. PatentedJuly 19,1887.

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J. W. OLSON.

WAGON END GATE.

No. 366,734. Patented July 19, 1887.

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N. PETERS. PhmvLXMgnpher. Wuhmglon, D. C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN XV. OLSON, OF MAQUON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO SOLOMON C. DENNIS I I 4 AND JAMES E. DEJNTS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

WAGON END-GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,734, dated July 19, 1857.

Applicatidn filed January 26, 1596.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it knownthat I, JOHN W. OLsoN, a citizen of the United Slates, residing at Maquon, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Vagon End-Gate and shoveling-Board, or" which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of endgates for wagons which can be turned down to make a shoveling or scoop board.

My improvements consist in certain details of construction and combinations of parts pertaining, first, to the means of securing the standards of the end-gate to the side-boards of a wagon of the usual construction; second, to the mode of hinging the end-gate to the standards, and, third, to the improved hinged connection of the end-gate,together with novel means for holding the bottom of the end gate closely against the bottom of the wagon with an elastic pressure when the end-gate is dropped to its inclined position as a scoopboard.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is aperspective of the rear end of a wagoirbody with my improved end-gate applied thereto in its closed position as an end-gate; Fig. 2, a similar view of the same with the end-gate dropped to its inclined position as a scoopboard; Fig. 3, asectional elevation of the rear end of a wagon with my improved end-gate applied thereto; Fig. 4, a horizontal sectionalplan of one corner of the wagon in the line :0 :v of Fig. 3 and one end of the end-gate to show their mode of construction; Fig. 5, a sectional elevation similar to that shown by Fig. 3, but with the end-gate turned down as a shoveling-board or scoop-board.

The improved device is shown as applied to a wagon-body of ordinary construetion,with sides A and bottom A, and with cleats a asecnred to the inner sides and rear ends of the body and arranged parallel with each other to form grooves for the reception of the ordinary end-gate. The end-gate standards B are provided with guide-ribs B, which snugly fit and slide between the cleats a a of the sideboards of the wagon-body, and are also provided with guide-rails B, which overlie the outer side of the said sideboards and serve to Serial No. 189,847. (No model.)

hold the guide'ribs B securely in the groove between the cleats a and admit of their ver; tical sliding movement therein for the removal or replacement of the standards from or upon the end of the wagon-box.

Thelowerendsot'thestandardsBaresquared out or stepped out at b to rest firmly upon the floor of the wagon-box and to project below the said floor at l), and a tie-rod, 0, passes through the projections b, and extends from one standard to the other parallel with and slightly in rear of the end of the wagon-box floor. A segmental slot, D is formed in the lower end of the standards, which forms a part ()5 of the hinged connections between the endgate and standards, as will hereinafter appear.

The endgate D rests at its lower end upon the rear end of the floor of the wagon-box and is hinged to the lower ends of the standards B by pintles d, which project therefrom and pass through the segmental slots If, formed in the lower ends of the standards, hereinbefore described.

The end-gate D is provided with fixed side pieccs,D,of any preferred shape or size,to prevent the diseharge of material from the sides of the gate in a wcll-known manner, and is also provided with metal cross bars or cleats D D, riveted securely to the rear side thereof to strengthen it. The cleat D" is formed with bolt-holes d in its projecting ends, through which rods F, secured by eye bolts F to the upper ends of the standards B, pass and are permitted to move endwise freely therein,and 8 5 heads F on the ends of the rods F support the end-gate D in its inclined position. (Shown in Figs. 2 and 5 of the drawings.)

When the end-gate is raised to its vertical or closed position, (shown in Figs. 1 and 3,) the rods F pass entirely through the holes (2, and the eyebolts F also pass into and partly through the said holes (1 to permit the rods F to drop or swing down behind the endgate and inside the tie-rod O to lock and hold the 5 gate at both its upper and lower ends securely to the standards. The rods F are securely held down by the tie-rod O, and must be first swung across or transversely to the end of the wagon to clear the tie-rod C before they can Ioo// be swung upwardly to pass freely through the holes in the end of the cleat D to unlock the endgate and permit it to drop into its inclined position, as hereinbefore described. \Vhen the end-gate is lowered or swung down to its inclined position, its upper end will be supported by the rods F, and the spring-plate E will bear beneath the under side of the floor of the wagon-box with an elastic pressure to hold the lower end of the end-gate in close contact with the floor and prevent the escape of grain therefrom, and the lower end of the gate will rest upon and be supported by the tie-rod G and by the pintles d, which rest in the outer ends of the segmental'slots b", formed in the lower ends of the standards. The spring stop-plate E,together with the tie rod 0, thus serves to hold the lower end-of the end-gate when in its lowered position as a scoop-board, and will serve as a safetystop to hold up the lower end of the gate should the hinge-pintles d become broken. The standards, together with the end-gate, may be removed from the end of the wagon by sliding them upwardly between the cleats a a of the wagon-body as easily as an ordinary end-gate, and when not desired for use it may be removed and the ordinary end-gate substituted therefor without change in the construction of either device and may be readily replaced in the wagon-box, as the end gate and standards B are con nected, as herein described, with each other.

I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a wagon-box, the standards B and tierod G, in combination with the end-gate provided with a spring stop-plate, E.,located substantially as shown, and adapted to swing between the standards and be supported at its lower end by the stop-plate, substantially as described.

2. The combination ofsthe standards B, pro

vided with segmental slots in their lower ends, with an end-gate provided with spring stopplate E, pintles d, to support the lower end of said end-gate, and rods F, hinged or swiveled to the standards to support the upper end of the end gate, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the standards B with an end-gate loosely hinged thereto at its lower end, and provided with aspring stop-plate, E,

adapted to hold the bottom of the gate with a box, substantially as described.

4:. In a wagon end-gate and scoop-board, in

combination, standards with ribs 13 and rails B, end-gate D,1 hinged, as described, to said standards, spring stop-plate E, and rods F, hinged to the standards, passed through the bar D and provided with a head which supports the end-gate as a seoop-board, substantially as and for the purpose'specified.

5. In combination, the standards with ribs B, end-gate hinged, as described, to said standards and provided with side-boards fixedly p connected therewith, and rods F, hinged to'the standards, passed through the bar D and provided with ahead which supports the end-gate as a scoop-board, and the spring stop-plate,

5 yielding pressure upon the floor of the wagon- 

